[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Bolsonaro has shunned social distancing, calling it a job-killing measure more dangerous than the virus itself.
He has also promoted two anti-malarial drugs as remedies, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, despite little evidence they work.The far-right former army captain’s handling of the crisis has prompted Brazilians to bang pots and pans regularly outside their apartments in protest, but it has not stopped him from wading into costly political battles with his own cabinet and the Supreme Court, stoking fears of instability.Pressure from Bolsonaro and public fatigue after months of ineffective state and local isolation orders has led governors and mayors to begin.